Happy Eid 2007
Monday, October 15th, 2007 Posted in Islam, Ramadan Blogging, USA | No Comments »Albeit a bit late, here is wishing everyone a great Eid.
Ramadan Blogging: Day 30
Saturday, October 13th, 2007 Posted in Islam, Ramadan Blogging, USA | 1 Comment »Last day of Ramadan with Imam Suhaib Webb.
Ramadan Blogging: Day 28
Thursday, October 11th, 2007 Posted in Ramadan Blogging, USA | No Comments »Eid is around the corner. With it comes the dilemma: to celebrate or not to celebrate. It seems this year too, like previous years, Eid will be observed on different days by different mosques. The one I go to has ...
Ramadan Blogging: Day 27
Thursday, October 11th, 2007 Posted in Islam, Ramadan Blogging, USA | No Comments »A common charge leveled against Muslims is that they don't condemn terror. Or at the very least, they don't condemn enough. One ex-PM in India tried to justify the mass-murder of 2000+ innocents in Gujarat in 2002 on this very ...
Ramadan Blogging: Day 24
Monday, October 8th, 2007 Posted in Ramadan Blogging, USA | 2 Comments »I think I am a nice dinner guest. I remember a lot of witty anecdotes, have a decent sense of humor and am respectful to others point of view. Unless I am on a table full of Pakistanis. So, I went ...
Ramadan Blogging: Day 23
Saturday, October 6th, 2007 Posted in Islam, Ramadan Blogging, USA | 2 Comments »Today was my first without-sahri roza. The friend who normally wakes us up went to the mosque early in the morning and the rest got up late. It was tough. In the morning I was in a dilemma whether to ...
Ramadan Blogging: Day 22
Saturday, October 6th, 2007 Posted in Islam, Ramadan Blogging, USA | 2 Comments »This is the MOST HONEST view of sectarian differences within Islam I have seen yet. I must give credit to Maulana Ishaq for the candor he spoke with. I have never seen anyone speaking with such honesty before, and I ...
Ramadan Blogging: Day 21
Thursday, October 4th, 2007 Posted in Islam, Ramadan Blogging, USA | No Comments »What do you really possess, and what have you gained? What pearls have you brought up from the depth of the sea? On the day of death, bodily senses will vanish: do you have the spiritual light to accompany your heart? When dust fills these eyes in the ...
Ramadan Blogging: Day 20
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 Posted in Islam, Ramadan Blogging, USA | No Comments »Sheikh Abdal-Hakim Murad writes on jihad, apostasy and women rights at On Faith: Newsweek. Born Timothy Winter, the British native Sheikh Murad attended the Westminster School and studied Arabic at Cambridge before converting to Islam and studying at al-Azhar University in ...
Ramadan Blogging: Day 19
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 Posted in Islam, Ramadan Blogging, USA | 2 Comments »Last Sunday was the 800th birth anniversary of Rumi. Read more at Indian Muslims and BBC News. And I am feeling much better now, alhumdulillah.
